[PATCH 2/3] nohz: Move idle balancer registration to idle path

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sun Jun 18 2017 - 22:12:26 EST


The idle load balancing registration path assumes that we only stop the
tick when the CPU is idle, ignoring the nohz full case. As a result, a
nohz full CPU that is running a task may be chosen to perform idle load
balancing.

Lets make sure that only CPUs in dynticks idle mode can be picked as
idle load balancers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 1c9a508..77c3be5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -785,7 +785,6 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts,
* the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
*/
if (!ts->tick_stopped) {
- nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
calc_load_nohz_start();
cpu_load_update_nohz_start();

@@ -938,8 +937,10 @@ static void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(struct tick_sched *ts)
ts->idle_expires = expires;
}

- if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped)
+ if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped) {
ts->idle_jiffies = ts->last_jiffies;
+ nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+ }
}
}

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2.7.4